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Graduate Profile: Kraig Lundberg

I’m Kraig Lundberg and I live in York, Nebraska. I married Kate in 2018, and we have three kids–Harper (girl), Micah (boy), and a baby boy due in August 2024. We are members of 2 Pillars Church in Lincoln.

I grew up in a home where Christ was preached. My parents both love the Lord and strove to plant seeds of faith in my siblings and I. I believe God saved me at a young age, and I vividly remember my baptism at age eight in the Roaring Fork River near Glenwood Springs, CO. In college, however, I began to recognize some serious deficiencies in my life’s alignment with my profession of faith. At the same time, I got involved with a group of college-age men who together sought to daily live out repentance and faith in a way I’d hardly seen before. I realized then that there were also serious deficiencies in my understanding of what walking with Christ looked like. Through involvement in campus ministry Cru, and unwitting exposure to preaching saturated by Reformed theology (in large part by the pastor of the church at which we now are members), I grew dramatically in understanding and faith during this time.

One of my closest friends convinced me to follow him to China after our graduation from the University of Nebraska, where I continued growing rapidly. There I met Pastor Mark Hatfield at Beijing Baptist Church, who introduced me to Reformed Baptist Seminary. I started taking classes in 2017. I don’t yet have a specific plan for using my training following graduation, except that I do plan to begin writing on a variety of theological, doxological, and practical topics in which I’ve formed interests during my studies.

One day, I hope to be fit to serve as a lay pastor, and I’m certain my training at RBS will be invaluable if and when that time comes. It has been a long road, and I am grateful for my experience with RBS and thankful to all the pastors, teachers, and behind-the-scenes workers who have given generously of their time to produce high quality content and make studying at RBS a great experience. I’d particularly like to thank Dr. Bob Gonzales, who has been very patient with my slow and imperfect progress, and has been a great resource. Dr. G is a great theologian, but more importantly, he very clearly loves Christ and his people.